Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20160615 From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 12:12:48 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, June 15, 2016 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- C.Vargas C.Vargas ARCTIC 20:41 01:04 T.Wilkinson L.Hebb, T.Wilkinson DIS 01:28 05:18 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- NM04/R 20:22 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 4.8 0 0 UW07/R 01:10 05:46 0 0 0 0 2.2 2.4 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: C.Gray Fantastic skies tonight! Perfectly clear weather and sub-arcsecond seeing. In fact, it makes me want to break out into song. So, this one goes out to Alaina and to all the visitors here at APO. *Slowly places hat on head* Be...our...guest, be our guest Put our service to the test, list your targets on your script, cherie and we provide the rest! Stars du jour, all observed Why we only live to serve See the Gray one? She's auspicious Against the moths, she's seditious Step outside, you'll shout "Oh!" After all, miss, *this* is APO And the seeing here is never second best! (0.7"!) Go on start your TUI, take some .fits and then you'll Be our guest, be our guest, be our guest! Betelgeuse, Milky Way light and beauty on display! We'll prepare and serve each flare A spectroscopic cabaret! You're alone and you're scared, But the obs spec's all prepared! No one's gloomy or complaining, While the Doctor's entertaining! We tell jokes, we do tricks With our fellow physicists And it's all in perfect taste That you can bet!!! (please don't fire me) Come on and lift the alt, In our stars you'll find no fault To be our guest, be our guest, be our guest! If you're stressed, it's fine seeing we suggest! Be our guest, be our guest, be our guest! . . . It's a guest, it's a guest! Saint's alive, we'll do our best! Starlight's poured, we'll not be bored I've got the filters you request! At midnight, it's co-ffee And my dear, that's fine with me! While the scope does its star viewing We'll be bubbling, we'll be brewing! Moths will poo where they shon't Heaven's sake, is that a spot?! Clean it off, we want the company impressed! We've got a lot to do-- Is it one inst or two? For you our guest! They're our guest! They're our guest! They're our guest! Be our guest! Be our guest! Our command is your request! It's the sky we love best, so forever We are obsessed! Clean the drives, in we'll squeeze Yes indeed, we aim to please While the full moon's light still glowing Let us help you, we'll keep going-- Source, by source one by one 'Til you shout "Enough, I'm done!" Then we'll sing you off to sleep as you reduce At dawn you'll prop your feet up, But for now let's close up Be our guest! Be our guest! Be our guest! Please be our guest!! No problems tonight ------- FAILURE LOG ------- PROG INST FAILURE MODE TIME (SEDFNVOG) TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp Strc Prim Sec Air filt FWHM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:49 arctic 443( 1131) 252 59 18.7 20.3 20.5 20.1 19.5 658 0.77 02:56 dcamera 354( 626) 216 78 16.1 15.3 15.9 15.1 14.8 -- 1.34 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 72 28 16 259 (W) 673 mstly clr none 17:00 74 28 24 247 (WSW) 555 mstly clr none 18:00 73 28 24 251 (WSW) 622 clear none 19:00 70 25 18 246 (WSW) 591 clear none 20:00 67 20 17 268 (W) 594 clear none 21:00 66 20 13 264 (W) 733 clear none 22:00 64 19 9 285 (WNW) 628 clear none 23:00 63 18 8 265 (W) 525 clear none 00:00 64 19 6 275 (W) 455 clear none 01:00 63 18 10 260 (W) 455 clear none 02:00 62 18 10 228 (SW) 465 clear none 03:00 61 19 10 211 (SSW) 474 clear none 04:00 59 21 6 186 (S) 461 clear none 05:00 57 23 6 185 (S) 609 clear none Note: the wind was coming from the azimuth listed. The convention used is north=0 degrees, east=90 degrees. The dust count is particles > 1u per 0.1 cubic feet. TELESCOPE STATUS Telescope drives operational. Current TCC version: 1.2.2 Current TUI version: 2.5.1